Landscape Photography – The Long Trail

Last month I was hiking in the Hill Country State Natural Area near Bandera, Texas with a good friend of mine. We’d planned this little excursion to central Texas so I could scout some nice locations for my spring workshop and arrived in the early afternoon on a cool fall day. The weather was almost [...]

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More Canon G10 Landscape Photography

A few weeks ago I wrote a short post entitled Outfitting Your Canon G10 for Landscape Photography which drew a lot of interest from amateur landscape photographers interested in finding an alternative to carrying around their somewhat bulky DSLR rig.
A few folks even emailed me to ask if a camera this small could really provide [...]

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The View from On High

I have to thank a friend of mine for pointing me to this wonderful location in central Texas. Its a small overlook on FM 1431 just outside Kingsland, Texas that boasts one of the best views in the state. From this vantage point you can see south to Lake Lyndon B Johnson, north to Lake [...]

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No Blog Tuesday – Sick in Bed!

No regular post today folks as I’ve come down with some bug (not the flu maybe the flu Not the Flu!) and I feel like I’ve been run over by Ford F150. Damn, I hate getting old.
To make up for it please check out Paul Hinrichs’ Flickr Set taken during last month’s Texas Landscape Safari. [...]

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Looking Upstream at Pedernales Falls

Here’s another shot looking upstream from the middle of Pedernales Falls near Johnson City, Texas. From here the falls seem to go on for mile after mile. I’ve explored this section of the Pedernales river extensively and its one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. With all the rocks, trees, sand and water, [...]

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Getting Used to Your New DSLR!

Getting used to a new DSLR camera can be a daunting task, especially for folks moving from an APS-C to a full-frame sensor. Most of us that began our photographic journeys with a 35mm SLR felt a little “cramped” the first time we used a “crop body” DSLR like the original EOS Digital Rebel. We [...]

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Landscape Photography is Hard Work!

Landscape Photography is Hard Work!
Not really, but after a beautiful morning hiking all over Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, the legs and back do get a wee bit sore. Nothing that a quick pint of Shiner Bock and some good German food in Fredericksburg won’t cure. Come and join me this spring for the Texas [...]

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The Texas Rainforest at Gorman Falls

Here’s another view of Gorman Falls taken during the Texas Landscape Safari at our first shoot in the Colorado Bend State Park near Lampasas, Texas. After a long dry summer the spring that feeds Gorman Creek was very low and the falls were barely running this autumn. I’m looking forward to better photographic opportunities during [...]

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Creating Image Borders & Shadows

I use Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom 2 for much of my RAW post-capture workflow as do most of the photographers that I know. It does so many things so much better than Camera Raw/Bridge/Photoshop that I can’t imagine life without it. My only complaint about Lightroom is it’s export functionality, especially for images that I plan [...]

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Hill Country Sunset

There’s a great little spot located on FM 1431 just east of Kingsland, Texas where the road climbs about 300 feet to a pull-off which looks over Lake LBJ and Packsaddle Mountain. In the early fall months the sun sets directly behind these hills providing one of the best sunset locations in the state. This is [...]

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